Definition of Customshouses

1. customshouse [n] - See also: customshouse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Customshouses

customizability
customizable
customization
customizations
customize
customized
customizer
customizers
customizes
customizing
customs
customs duty
customs officer
customs union
customshouse
customshouses (current term)
custos
custos regni
custos rotulorum
custrel
custrels
custron
custumal
custumals
custumaries
custumary
cusum
cut
cut-and-dried
cut-and-dry

Literary usage of Customshouses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pan-Americanism: Its Beginnings by Joseph Byrne Lockey (1920)
"... that any merchant vessel conforming to the laws of the United States was entitled to an entry to the customshouses whatever flag she might bear; ..."

2. Inquiry Into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and Santo Domingo by United States Congress. Senate. Select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo. [from old catalog] (1921)
"... tr.ed to use it as a lever to get concessions toward the appointment of Haitians in the customshouses, and after it was agreed to there was constant ..."

3. The Wool-growing Industry by United States Tariff Commission (1921)
"Mr. George William Bond, of Boston, selected the samples which were used to identify the class of imported wool at the customshouses.21 The manner in which ..."

4. American Policy in Nicaragua: Memorandum on the Convention Between the by George Thomas Weitzel (1916)
"... namely, control of the customshouses. It involved simply the refunding of the public debt and payment of all foreign obligations by means of a loan ..."

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